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We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.
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We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, RCTC), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please contact an officer.
Did you used to be on our email list and suddenly haven't gotten email for months? We had a glitch and it caused many people to get unsubscribed; unfortunately Tina doesn't have a way of https://ycharts.com/indices/%5ESPXTR/ytd_returnknowing who all we lost. Please use "Linux mailing list" on the left to get yourself re-added, sorry!
Informal Social: Friday November 18th 2016
The Activities email list is coordinating a viewing of the Dr. Strange movie. Join that email list for the current plan for date/time/location for this movie viewing.
Technical Meeting / Social: Friday December 9th, 6:00 pm-midnight
In December we do something like board or card games, video games, etc because it's just too close to Thanksgiving and Christmas to fit in a social and a speaker.
Tollefoto is hosting a gaming night at his house. Email him or Tina if you need address and/or directions. Start time is 6:00 pm. Note that this is NOT our usual second Thursday, we pushed it back one night so people don't have to deal with getting to work in the morning.
Dinner will be pulled chicken, barbecue sauces, and buns, water, and lemonade.
We play whatever you bring. Please consider bringing board games to play, snacks and/or drinks. RSVP's of the types of stuff you're bringing would be appreciated so we don't have overstocks of some items (such as everyone bringing chips).
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| Name | # of self/family/friends | Electronic games | Board/card games | Food/beverage contributions | Other | Dinner |
| Tollefoto | 2 + 3 | 50" tv, Wii with __ remotes, AppleTv | None | pulled chicken, barbecue sauces, and buns, water, lemonade | Paper napkins, cups, plates | ??? |
| Tina | 2 players + 2 distractors | . | Pandemic, Ticket to Ride, Munchkin, Great Dalmuti, Fluxx, EcoFluxx, Candy Land, many others - feel free to make requests | Fruit salad and pasta salad, 1 2-L of Squirt | TBD | Yes please |
| Will | 2 + 1/2 | dunno | dunno | dunno | dunno | yes ? |
| Erik & Dee | 2 | x | Catch Phrase, The Game of Things, Wizard, Bellz | Cornbread and cookies | ? | Yes! |
| Your name here | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Technical Meeting: January 12th, 2017
ArborWay Labs, on their automatic database application Studio.
Also, K-LUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations.
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
Social: January 2017, TBD
We're going to hang out at the Machine Shed, thanks go to Mark D for the idea. Here is some recent advertising from the local newspapers. If you're interested, please suggest a day/date/time.
Technical Meeting: February 9th, 2017
Speaker needed, please let Tina know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.
Also, PCIG officer nominations.
Planned Social: February 2017, TBD
Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
May 2017
Do we have a May meeting? Or do we all go to a free physics show at the Civic Center auditorium?
Pending potential presentations
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" . Peter Shabino
Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize
Planned Socials: Fall or winter
-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.
-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary
-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls
-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.
-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.
-MAME/foosball/ping pong at ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...
-February or July armchair mapping aka road rally event, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/
Upcoming Meeting Crisis!
We need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2016. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Jon G with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings
Old News Items
See the OldNews page.